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Blimey. I was under general anaesthetic for my biopsy. Wouldn’t have fancied that much! (Although, for a tangentially related issue, I have twice had a camera up the japs eye while awake. I would not recommend this).

Firstly, hope whatever treatment you need is prompt and goes well. That’s a very strange way to hear. Even for my relatively unconcerning case, the news was broken personally by the Consultant with a McMillan nurse present for moral and practical support. It sounds like a mistake and thankfully...

Thanks for your concern. I'm fine with it. My diagnosis was about 5 years ago and, fortunately, very little has changed in the meantime. 6 monthly PSA check, biennial MRI scans, fingers always crossed. So far, so good.

When I was initially discovered to have a painful and enlarged prostate with raised PSA, it was a real panic. The Consultant reassured me that 'weeks are fine, months are fine' when we were talking about the follow-up appointments. I think the point being that they'd have a good idea from other...

Superb news. Very pleased for you.

I believe there are a couple of reasons they don’t screen everybody. Firstly, PSA is useful but not particularly accurate so I suppose it could lead to an awful lot of false alarms. Secondly, there’s likely to be a sizeable proportion of men over 50 carrying some cancer in the prostate. That...

Your biopsy does sound a bit different. When I had a high PSA and prostatitis about 5 years ago, I had an MRI to check before the targeted biopsy was carried out under general anaesthetic. Perhaps it depends on the hospital Trust (mine is Surrey even though I live in Hove, long story). From what...

It used to be but doesn't need to be hit and miss any more. An MRI will show them the tumour and the correct area can then be targeted accurately (template biopsy).